[CMake] Getting Makefiles sensitive tonew/deleted files/directories?

[blinkeye]

On 03/19/2008 09:50 PM,  Ken Martin wrote:
 > Can you do the glob, configure the result out to a file, then INCLUDE 
that
 > file. I believe that will solve the problem. Something like
 >
 > file(GLOB SRC *.cpp)
 > configure_file(somefile.in somefile)
 > include(somefile)
 >
 > where somefile.in looks like
 >
 > # list of files as a comment -- ${SRC}
 >
 > This works because CMake does check (at make time) to see if any included
 > file in CMake has changed but is smart in that configure_file only writes
 > the file if it has changed. I'm pretty sure something like that will 
work.
 >
 > Ken

Could you be a bit more specific on how to include a file with listed 
source files or actually in which format such a file has to be? I tried 
that but it didn't work for me. Alex was suggesting this solution a 
while back where packadal was asking about "build shared library from 
static libraries":

> You have to set them in the parent directory or set them ibn a file in the
> subdir which is then INCLUDE()d in the parent directory (use full paths
> then)